Deadwood Pioneer-Times from Deadwood, South Dakota • Page 1

fit The Day's News By The Associated Press ISSUED EVERY MORNINGT EXCEPT MONDAY Western South Dakota's Only Morning Newspaper SIXTY-FIRST YEAR DEADWOOD, (Black Hills) SOUTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, lo37 PRICE FIVE CENTS JENSEN TAKES OFFICE AS GOVERNOR Gangster Involved In Sioux Falls Blast Is mrn vv 11 rkccp viuiug THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG "Vein Behind the News" Two Main Factors In Airplane Disasters Wheat Shortage Deters War Lords Borah Will String With F.D.R. Sentenced to 40 Years Advises Modification of Justice Department and Curtailment of Expenses LANGLER STOPS EXECUTION OF FORECLOSURES Moratorium Declared On Real and Personal Property AL ETTORE WINS BOUT OVER LEWIS Admits Presence Fatal Blasting But Denies His Guilt Will Have Partial Control of State Government JENSEN WOULD CHANGE NAME OF STATE PARK PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. (P) Al BISMARCK, N. Jan.

SIOUX CITY, Jan. 5. (JP) Harry Reeves, who confessed he saw knocked out flfth round by Joe No Bids For Copper nis gang w.pr uut u.ic ui xouijB last September, Is back today in Govemor William Langer tonight pro-! claimed a moratorium prohibiting real and personal property mortgage foreclosure sales and the execution of sales of livestock and other personal prop-i erty in North Dakota. The proclama-i Democrat Move Fails Entire Republican Slate of Em ployes Are Elected Cuse Incident Makes Perfect Setup Willi live Wlia VI ujifiiiiiw: hrcvetuac they feared he would talk, received a 40-year prison sentence for the robbery of the Ehlerman Jewelry company here. Reeves confessed the robbery.

Implicating William Nesbeth and Lee PIERRE, Jan. 5.1P) Governor Leslie Jensen, South Dakota's new republican executive, today asked the legislature to change the name of Custer state park in the Black Hills to Norbeck state park as a tribute to the late Senator Peter Norbeck. tion does not apply to loans by federal agricultural loan agencies. the front row of fltlana, clutching a hard-won 10-round decision over John Henry Lewis, of Phoenix, Ariz. Ettore Ignored both the betting odds against him last night and the battering he took in the early rounds.

He started his comeback in the fourth, carried the fight to Lewis again in the seventh, and had most of the 13,000 spec- PIERRE, Jan. 5. Py-At the opening of South Dakota's 25th legislative DHAmV.li. nrlU TnMnnw AA anw Careless With Autos "The paternity of Custer state park 3.7;'' CX TT rZl pii in t.h. nt old republican business man of Hot well established in the past eighteen is Jensen told the senators and 2J "Jg9 "3 years, Denies Lurhtiiur Fuse tators standing on their seats as he Lead I.O.O.F.

Elects Officers for New Year Last night at the annual election of WASHINGTON By RAY TUCKER representatives in his inaugural ad- obauc, imbiHig ilia pal bjr uiuv ihuum control of the state government, after dress. "Today that park ranks among demote ruTT tho flrrf in th nrirt- tv. Iour years oi democratic nue. the first in the world; symbolizing the Republicans elected their slates of POLICING Unofficial post-mortems pioneer, the home of Rushmore, the legislative employes In the house and summer playground of presidents, vi jhcsiuciiw, officers at I.O.OJ. lodge No.

17, of. Lead, held In the lodge hall, the fol-j lowing were elected for the ensuing! year: I Steve Nicholl, noble grand; Rudolph: a aftpr failure nf a rfpmncralp real asset, and bringing attention to our state from far and near. Less than SIOUX CITY, Jan. 5. (TV-Off i-! hammered the light heavyweight cham-cers said that Harry (Slim) Reeves, pion in the tenth, captured in a farmer's garage without, Ettore weighed 191 and Lewis 183.

the firing of a shot last night, admit-! The Judges were divided on the deci-ted today that he saw Harold Baker, sion in the non-title bout and Joe Mi-gangster companion, blown to bits by guigan, referee, awarded the bout to a five-ton dynamite charge. Ettore. Sheriff W. R. Tice said Reeves ad- Lewis cut Ettore's eye at the outset mitted participating in the explosion of the fight and later drew blood to at Sioux Falls, S.

New Year's eve, the nose. but denied that he touched off the The fight drew a gate estimated at blast or shot Mrs. Helen Sleler, Sioux $30,000. City. into recent airplane accidents attribute them to two main factors-tnadequate radio equipment and the traveling public's clamor against cancellation of schedules in unfavorable flying weather.

Neither cause can be removed A motion by Rep. Nathaniel Nickish, (D), Bowdle, to put in a democratic-picked list of senate employes starting O. Volk, vice noble grand; O. J. Moch-on, secretary; John A.

Spargo, treasur a month ago, the man, whose last days and years were occupied with thots for its further development, passed on. William S. Knudsen (above), executive vice president of the General Motors corporation, said that although strike troubles might ultimately throw 135,000 automotive workers Into Idleness, the corporation would "keep as many plants at possible going as long as poi- lible." (Associated Press Photo) with first assistant secretary, was vot- But his work is there. Less fortunate states with greater wealth cannot 23 to with tW0 democrat er; Hugh Nicholl, warden; H. S.

Plum, conductor; C. L. Sargent, inner guardian; Clifford Caffrey, outer guardian; George A. Zoll, right supporter noble Science has not yet developed radio match It. The republican slate, headed by A.

B. Blake of Huron, as secretary, then A1n-n4 OH tn lO trvfrfi t3aruiKI1- "As a deserved tribute to its founder and South Dakota's first native son grand; Henry Eyster, left supporter noble grand; Maurice Williams, right antennae which will not accumulate ice and cut off communication between th2 plane and ground. The market for such appliances Is comparatively small, the profits are limited and incentive for experimentation is missing. Government experts are now testing a new governor, I propose and urge that this 99 th legislature give legislative approval to a C1 majority in the scene supporter; H. H.

Stormo, left scene supporter; A. H. Neil, chaplain; Frank Philip, right supporter vice no measure changing the name of Custer, PUBLIC DEBT REACHES NEW HIGH POINT Tice said Reeves named William Nesbeth of Sioux City, and Lee Bradley of Sioux Falls, both fugitives on a murder charge, as the other participants in the gang blast and shooting. "Reeves said he was about 75 feet away when the gangsters blew up Baker," but he hasn't told us a complete story of what happened. In the house, where the republican state park to Norbeck state park." ble grand; Clyde Mitchell, left support margin is 66 to 37, there was no oppo- device which may furnish the best Senator Norbeck served South Dako-! ZZZ.

er vice noble grand. MERCURY DROPS 15 BELOW ZERO HERE LAST NIGHT The installation was conducted by many years in official positions. He w-iu TWhuii 2 clerk wrieht J. W. Miles of Deadwood, D.

D. Grand answer to the problem. Another need is larger craft 21 instead of 10 passenger ships. These will reduce flying time and trips also wear and tear and introduce a new safety factor. Inauguration of Jensen and three Bays snooting Accidental years, governor four years and United States senator sixteen years.

Master of Eureka lodge. No. 13. During the evening members of the Dakota Rebekah lodge also held their annual election of officers with the in The 1936 Increase In air travel popu "He said that Nesbeth, Baker and Treasury Report Lists Peak at Bradley got into a fight and that 1 Sleler was shot as she rushed between! 34 Billion Dollars them. He said he was trying to drag Mrs.

Sieler away when the other two w.SHINGTON Jan 5 up The put Baker on top of all that dynamite if ofto fhot public debt has reached a new all-time and blew it up, and that after that he J- other republican state officials occurred at the opening of the legislative session at noon. The republican executive takes the place of Tom Berry of Belvidere, the state's third democratic governor, who lost to Jensen in the November election by nearly 10,000 votes. Altho Jensen has republican major Commissioners Swear In New Lawrence County Officer? The daily treasury statement for De City." larity has strained the transportation plant visibly and and definitely. The two principal makers of commercial vessels Lockheed and Douglas are hopelessly behind demand right now. And the public barks when ships are grounded in bad weather, insisting upon speed and reguarity and recklessness.

Travelers who hounded taxi drivers into speeding in dangerous traffic are arrested, but there seems to be no corresponding policing of the airway chance-taking. stallation conducted by Millie Hogarth, One of the most sudden cold waves district deputy president, Alta Rebekah bringing snow and sub-zero weather lodge, No. 8, of this city. Those elected experienced In the Black Hills region are as follows: in many years, yesterday descended on Anna Hogarth, N.G.; Helena Walther, this section and temperatures In Maria Schnitzel, secretary; Flor-jwood dropped from a high of 37 on ence Shaw, treasurer; Mary Miles, war-! Monday to 12 below yesterday, den; Amy Harris, conductor; Oliva Jep- As early as five o'clock yesterday sen, inner guardian; Sadie B. Neil.

afternoon the mercury had dropped to outer guardian; Polly Christensen, 9 below which was folowed by a drop R.S.N.G.; Mabel Ferguson, L.S.N.G.;i0f three more degrees two hours later. Jennie Oliver, R.S.S.; Olga Erickson.lAt intervals thruout the day snow fell L.S.S.; Elizabeth Hett, chaplain; Sed-; intermittently over the entire Black ities in the legislature, his control of the state government is hampered by With but a few exceptions, Lawrence conntv nfTinpR will lv rofniviori hw t.h cember 30 disclosed that $50,000,000 of new borrowing last week pushed the debt $37,000,000 over the previous record high established last June. With only one day's operations unaccounted for, the statement showed a $1,386,013,000 deficit for the first half of this fiscal year, compared with Tice said Reeves would not say whether he came here alone from Sioux Falls. Meanwhile, at Sioux Falls, Assistant County Attorney Harrington of Sioux City, attempted to obtain a statement from Mrs. Sieler, in a serious condi- i 1 1 rrWn Olnnv fit.

same personnel as during the past ad-! the presence of democratic officials in ministration and those assuming their slx ste offices. They are Clair Rod-new duties were sworn in yesterday be-1 dewig, attorney general; Ray Kelly, au-fore Commissioners W. R. Burchett, I d'tor; W. H.

Hlnselman, treasurer; chairman, Deadwood; J. L. Curran 1 Ben Strool, commissioner of school and I nublic lands: J. F. Hines.

superintend wen mover, K.S.V.U. Amy Dingle, Hills area, until bv niehtfall a blan SAGGING Military experts' cons- 3'h, $1,876,482,000 for the corresponding L.S.V.G. ket of four inches was reported in and and A. L. Dixon, Lead; James C.

Nelson, Spearflsh, and Fred Beardshear, Nemo. William L. Treber, former deputy around this city. Following the business program refreshments were served. ent of public instruction, and Goldie Wells, secretary of state.

Besides the governor, republicans taking office today are Donald McMurchle, elusions may deter the warlike dictators provided Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin remember Napoleon's remark about an army and Its stomach. scene of the explosion with eight bul- P61-101 last year- let wounds. I (Sheriff Tice and his demitv Glen SOUTH DAKOTA treasurer, is now treasurer "with David R. Kellar, retiring treasurer; Shirley I lieutenant-governor, and two railroad The world faces a tremendous short While roads in the Hills are reported as Slippery and exceedingly dangerous, all are open to travel with the exception of an occasional drift here and there. "Stretches of Highway No.

14 between Philip and Pierre and No. 16 from Presho to Chamberlain are in commissioners, J. J. Murphy and Roy PRISONERS SET FIRE TO JAIL age of wheat presently. The supply is sufficient for normal needs though prices will climb but not for the maw Lang and Frank Rainey as deputies.

The new county auditor, Theresa Col-man, appointed last summer to succeed the late Fred Harris, will not be of war machines. AAA-ers recently ONCE OWNED BY MANY NATIONS PIERRE, Jan. 5. UP) History reveals the fact that the area now embracing South Dakota was shoved and tossed about by leading nations of Eur Hauser arrested Reeves last night in a garage at the Bill Rice farm one and one-half miles south of here. Acting on a tip from an undisclosed source, the Woodbury county sheriff and deputy went to the farm shortly before 10 o'clock.

Tice said he knocked on the garage door and Reeves answered, "Is that you poor condition. sworn in until March 4, as county au IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Jan. 5. JP) Prisoners Heavy snow in the eastern part of ditors hold over for two months. Her was responsible for delaying I deputy ls LiVak.

the state Doherty. Three state officials, Murphy, Strool and Hines, are incumbents. The following is a text of the Inaugural address of Governor Jensen delivered at Pierre today: The duty wnich I now undertake to perform is imposed by law. It commands that at this time I communicate to the legislature, by message, information on the conditions of our state, together with such recommendations as seem to me to be advisable and for the in one cell block of the county Jail set broadcast optimistic reports on new acreage planted In winter wheat, but few expect their rosy promises to materialize. Droughts and lack of mais-ture here will reduce the total.

Excessive rains have ruined a large share of rauroaa tranic into tne iiuis. snowiau ci, tp Are to a pillow and then threw the Are to a pillow and then threw rVBriwonrf and surrnnndin towns' iuiami floor into darkness by b.JlaS Wester Johns, ope before the United Sttes acquired an eiecinc ngm socicei in wnat jauers Deadwood, 4 inches; Belle Fourche, 3 described as an attempted prison break. mches. ouster. VA inches: Hot SDrines.

wantcu xuigcry ciiarges, will retain his present deputies, Fred J. Seals and Gregor Stewart. Special deputies are it and then it was transferred from one political division to another so many times that it might be referred to as a "terrestial football." Argentina's crop. Prospects are dark in middle Europe. About 12 prisoners were in the ln-h.

gnearflsh. 4 inches: Sturels. Clarence Richards. Whitewood. and Existing supplies are comparatively block where the disturbance started.

3 and Hill City, inch. common good. No less than 20 changes were made in small. In the surplus period of 1929- All the Prisoners were (locked in state temperatures, generally in the claims and divisions of the land be One cannot help becoming deeply (Continued on Page 2) their cells at the time, Assistant Jailer Bill?" and he said "Yes." "Reeves opened the door and saw our guns leveled at him," the sheriff said. "He didn't offer a fight.

He Just said, 'All right, I won't give you my trouble'." Federal Justice department aflsnts from Sioux Falls and Aberdeen, S. were expected to question Reeves further later in the day. Tice said Reeves denied participating in a $37,000 jewelry store robbery here December 22. 30's Monday, dipped sharply during the 1935 the annual world carry-over totalled a billion bushels. Last July tt tween the time England first said it Nicholas Nero said.

"Apparently Tneertav morire mnph as Earl Schultz, Tinton. Chas. S. Hardin, appointed to succeed the late C. T.

Stirrett, and elected at the general election, will be sworn in as county justice. Daniel Boone, Whitewood, ls county constable. belonged to the crown in 1609 and was 750,000,000, but the estimate lor thot that when they set up an alarm vjin; th nrwviinr rfnv's maxima when It became a state in 1889. It was next year saggs to 420,000,000. Nature of fire were would throw open the cellWere recorded.

controlled respectively by England, may be conspiring against the doors ana uiey couia rusn us. wfts at Aberdeen, the state's lords. As against current shortages, When we saw the Dillow burnlne we' a ne, or Lead, succeeds Spain and France between 1700 and 1803 when it was sold to the United 1914 and 1915 produced bumper crops Just went in and put the Are out We Monds hieh 36 the lowes a Walther as of didn't open the ceTls and they had no.Z S5? winL we' contto- and a world war. The granaries were States. But it was not until after Lewis and Clark returned from their much- full and the generals struck.

chance to rush us." ,0. uo twn written-about trip of exploration into The pillow was lighted and pushed MitckeU 7-10 soux tlaH S. iru the cell bars to the runway out-lanH Yankton -4 -I I Ut states attorney, and thru ana ann, the vast hinterlands that a vague con ALLY Senators Borah and Vanden- ception was obtained of the extent of side. Three saw blades were found in Lead Kiwanis Club Installs New Officers E. V.

Cooper, manager of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company branch in Deadwood and Lead, was installed as president of the Lead Kiwanis club Monday evening. Mr. Cooper has served as a member of the board of directors of the club for several years and has been active in other branches of club work. Other officers installed were O. W.

Kolberg, secretry-treasurer, and W. J. Schoen, the retiring president, who be MOTHERS PRAY FOR MERCY FOR berg are staging a lively row for vocal leadership of the abbreviated chorus of the region. cells of the block after an investiga Harold J. Shea continues as county Continued cold was forecast, wlthijudge snow probable in the west and south, Miss Haze, superintendent Snow fell yesterday in Mitchell, Hur- of retains her fflce ffl At different times South Dakota has republicans in the senate.

tion. been a part of Missouri, Michigan, The Idaho senator will take no part Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska on'lVe June, when she will be succeeded by tvfnr D-nlnc trt nrpjw this duwiceuem and Dakota Territory before it be in the revivification of the G.O.P. he doesn't think it worth white but he doesn't intend to be shoved out of his miss j-iaura rascoe, spearflsh. mornine. the thermometer registered.

came old enough to have a birthright FLU STRIKES BRITISH NAVY, 15 below zero, the coldest recorded so of its own. CONVICTED SONS Killed Subway Collector in $30 Robbery far this winter in Deadwood. peculiar spot by the ambitious member from Michigan. Mr. Borah has always NATIONS WILL came vice president.

Members of the regarded foreign affairs as his special province, and he didn't relish the Ex-Wife of Chaplin Middlewest Suffers DISCUSS THEIR CHICAGO, Jan. 5. UP) Intense younger man prevlousness in pro Sues for Divorce pounding a neutrality policy. That may cold, ranging down to 37 Wow zero of Tfemlrill Minn hnrn'ispH the nrai-! MENWARNED All Are Asked to Avoid Crowds On Shore Leave NEW YORK, Jan. 5.

W-Six men explain why the "lone wolf" suddenly DEFENSE PLANS with less than two days of life before LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5. IP -Henry shifted his stand so as to indorse rie States. Sub-zero temperatures werel reported in the Dakotas, Wisconsin, board of directors who were inducted into office are N. E.

Mattox, R. V. Hun-kins, Nathaniel Herz, A. H. Neil, G.

A. Rounsevell and S. C. Berry. The retiring president, W.

J. Schoen, was presented with a gold past-president's button, in appreciation for his services to the club. Dr. N. E.

Mattox presided as installing official. J. L. Curran told the club about the highway projects which tjie county them, prepared tonight to die in Sing Aguirre, 26-year-old actor from Texas, FDR's insistence on lodging discretionary power in the chief executive. sing prison while their mothers and filed a denial early this week 01 cnarg- Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska, but forecasters French and British War Min- others prayed in the street before Gov- es made by his wife, the former Lita Now that political flames have died precictea tne moaerauon woura siari.

(By The Associated Press) ernor Herbert H. Lehman's Park ave-, Grey Chaplin, in her divorce suit, that nue home. Aguirre once called her the "meanest down In the part-time progressive's breast, friends predict that he will isters to Confer Naval authorities indicating concern The district attorney, who sent them woman in the world." Wednesday. Snow fell again in South Dakota and some schools were closed in Min lest England's widespread influenza commissioners are furthering at the to the death cells for a $30 robbery The husband denied specifically each generally be found at the president's side in coming battles. New dealers eagerly welcome the reinforcement.

strike hard against the British fleet, PARIS, i 10 uo nf vi nrp.epnr. nmp hu orvtniim tr tvia wyi- warned sailors on shore leave to void and the killing of a subway collector, charge in Lita Grey's suit, based on hurried a special report of their case accusations of cruelty. Aguirre denied nesoLa. jv wave ui miiucjioa uos ax- eenpral statT talks tn nronnnp a riofmea dieted some cities in Colorado, Wyo- 3VnT fPra dlfef! Provements being made In Spearflsh St They don't need his vote, but they re- any Icrowds. The flu continued to ming and Montana.

spread thruout the European continent. Continued on Page 4) a EuJopean canyon, particularly between Savoy and ESS Zl be" Maurice, met with approval from club 1 a members. The commissioners are ac-close to the defense ministry said to-jqulrmg parts of former grade in this section of the canyon, I Alfred Duff Cooper, British secretary w. tu to the governor. 1 he ever had abused or belittled her, or "Save the boys, have pity on their called her vile names mothers," moaned an estimated 200 The couple parted December 10, 1936, persons including their mothers, kneel- after a marriage lasting approximately lng before Gov.

Lehman's home. three months. NEW ADMINISTRATION LOCKED OUT OF CITY HALL of war, conferred here last night tZTJ" Anotner interesting project which the LT vJftJllJ county is aiding is the construction of concerned British to preparedness aid NEW CONGRESS WILL SLAP SWIFT EMBARGO the Iron creek dam, to impound the waters of this creek. A road is being built from this dam to connect with France in case French troops are sent to the Pyrenees which divide France and Spain. the Spearflsh canyon road, Mr.

Curran pointed out. B. V. von Senden of California, en tertained the club with humorous vo ON ARMS SHIPMENTS BAH WEATHER HALTS SEARCH SALVAGE MEN cal solos. (Call).

tended for Madrid loyalists. Robert Cuse of Jersey City, an ex Exporters Are Rushing Shipments Abroad Before U. S. Acts CHARLEVOIX. Jan.

5. (JP) Xcy seas breaking on Simmons Reef Funeral of Rich Omaha Man Is Held OMAHA, Jan. 5. "Funeral services porter, was racing to load the airplanes aboard a steamer at New York before caused abandonment today of coast congress can act, state department of guard efforts to recover bodies of three ficials said. of five Beaver Island men who died were held here this afternoon for William E.

"Billy" Nesselhous, 72, Omaha They disclosed that a second muni Relief Funds Needed Friday when their salvage craft explod tions dealer, Richard L. Dinely, of ed while siphoning gasoline from the San Francisco, is planning to ship $4,507,000 worth of planes, rifles, ma abandoned tanker C. Oswald Boyd. Steamboat Inspector Bernie Gellick chine guns and ammunition to the 75th Congress Convenes With Easy Formality of Family Reunion who came here to Investigate, expressed the belief that the crew of the sal loyalists. millionaire who died late Saturday at Rochester, Minn.

He suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago. Nesselhous was a partner of the late Tom Dennison in the organization that dominated Omaha politics for many years. He came to Omaha as a boy and started as a street gambler. Later he bought the old Budweiser saloon where he and Dennison operated a gambling room that started the pair On the way to fortune. vage ship, the Marold II, was negligent in handling the gasoline.

He said the Will Need More Belief Money Marold was not equipped with any WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. VP) The WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (IP) A treasury report showed that should relief spending continue at the pace of blower to drive off fumes, and that a heavy accumulation of gas probably -J 75th congress of the United States convened with the easy informality of a family reunion and prepared to tackle was touched off by a spark.

the past six months, President Roose velt will need $700,000,000 more for the legislation slapping a swift embargo on The blast lifted the deck of the Marold across the bows of the Bovd. The tanker continued to bum fiercely today rest of the present fiscal year. Presi arms shipments to Spain's civil war. Administration leaders of both hous and coast guardsmen said it might later Gov Dave Sholtz ot Florida ousted Mrs. Irene Armstrong, mayor of Daytona Beach, and all of her administration except one commissioner, and appointed a new group to conduct the city's business.

Mrs. Armstrong, cwever, locked the new administration out of the city hall. The "homeless" new commission, is shown here, kit to right: front row, Harry Drake, Mayor Harry Wilcox and Henry Pollitz; back row, A. C. Hawkins and J.

B. Burgman. (Associated Press Photo) dent Roosevelt indicated recently that he would ask for a half billion dollars but later said that funds might be William Elrod and his daughter, Jane, who have both been confined to their home with severe colds, were reported last night as greatly improved. es will introduce tomorrow an sadmin explode. All craft were warned to give it wide berth.

istration approved resolution to cut off the $2,777,000 cargo of airplanes in transferred to augment this..